kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
Funnier if you put yourself on ignore as well
I'm hoping and assuming that TFG will attract major new investment soon.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
FFP dictates what we can and cannot spend.
Whilst we won't have hundreds of millions to spend. We will have considerably more money.
In addition, itll be the first year where we can realistically utilise the revenue streams of the new stadium (corporate, naming rights) etc, which we currently cannot do.
NeilMorepies
Player Valuation: £30m
Everton Transfer window that.
Loads of hope and desperation, one loan in for the only position we already have a bit of cover in.
We needed bodies in to our paper thin squad.
There wasn’t many cheap options out there and they didn’t want to come to us. Moyes’ victories gave the owners enough confidence that we didn’t really need to spend.
Loads of hope and desperation, one loan in for the only position we already have a bit of cover in.
We needed bodies in to our paper thin squad.
There wasn’t many cheap options out there and they didn’t want to come to us. Moyes’ victories gave the owners enough confidence that we didn’t really need to spend.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Overall a meh window, if the young Argie lad comes in and looks great though then it's another one to the list of good young players we've added.
Looking at the players who moved clubs this January can honestly say there's zero I'm looking at and wishing we'd hit them on the desks they moved on. Ferguson i'd have liked but not in essentially a development loan completely in Brighton's interest.
Besides him nada. Should we hd e do entire, hard to say - as I said above nobody moved I'm gutted we missed out on - kinda points to lack of availability maybe? If they were available at decent prices simply put they'd have moved to other clubs obviously.
Summer is the litmus test now, we avoided any stupid choices transfer wise that would hamper or restrict us during the summer. We need a serious number of players coming in during June-August with the right quality and age. That's gonna cost an absolute shed load of money. Will we have the financial backing - will operating in a wide open market be able to get the correct desks over the line ahead of competitors - all big unknowns.
If best case scenario both Lindstrom and Alcaraz options are taken up as they do well the remainder of the season, we re-sign Gueye and all other loans and out of contracts leave the club, we are looking at having to bring in around 10-12 required to come in (including loans) on top of the two converted loans already here.
So baseline - that's roughly 32m on Lindstrom and Alcaraz. Say we utilize 3-4 loan spots to try before we buy and go help mitigate the money we spend in one go.
That leaves 6-9 more permanent deals we'd need to get done. All assuming we don't sell or have anyone come down with a long term bad injury.
That's a hell of a lot of work to get through in a few months like. The club in my lifetime has never ever managed even close to that level of recruitment before and I have major doubts if we have even the reunited capability if doing so now. Finding 10-12 players good enough to push the squad on whilst trying to keep wages under control.
Not sure just if the Friedkins will be willing to bankroll it either as you'd be looking at north of 150-200m to be able to do so at the level required (and that's without any thoughts of buying lads for silly money either)
Looking at the players who moved clubs this January can honestly say there's zero I'm looking at and wishing we'd hit them on the desks they moved on. Ferguson i'd have liked but not in essentially a development loan completely in Brighton's interest.
Besides him nada. Should we hd e do entire, hard to say - as I said above nobody moved I'm gutted we missed out on - kinda points to lack of availability maybe? If they were available at decent prices simply put they'd have moved to other clubs obviously.
Summer is the litmus test now, we avoided any stupid choices transfer wise that would hamper or restrict us during the summer. We need a serious number of players coming in during June-August with the right quality and age. That's gonna cost an absolute shed load of money. Will we have the financial backing - will operating in a wide open market be able to get the correct desks over the line ahead of competitors - all big unknowns.
If best case scenario both Lindstrom and Alcaraz options are taken up as they do well the remainder of the season, we re-sign Gueye and all other loans and out of contracts leave the club, we are looking at having to bring in around 10-12 required to come in (including loans) on top of the two converted loans already here.
So baseline - that's roughly 32m on Lindstrom and Alcaraz. Say we utilize 3-4 loan spots to try before we buy and go help mitigate the money we spend in one go.
That leaves 6-9 more permanent deals we'd need to get done. All assuming we don't sell or have anyone come down with a long term bad injury.
That's a hell of a lot of work to get through in a few months like. The club in my lifetime has never ever managed even close to that level of recruitment before and I have major doubts if we have even the reunited capability if doing so now. Finding 10-12 players good enough to push the squad on whilst trying to keep wages under control.
Not sure just if the Friedkins will be willing to bankroll it either as you'd be looking at north of 150-200m to be able to do so at the level required (and that's without any thoughts of buying lads for silly money either)
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £70m
I wonder if the club will start its recruitment drive for the summer in earnest now, or whether they'll wait until the window opens then realise they've got two-thirds of a squad to replace.
You'd expect the former, but not be surprised if it were the latter.
You'd expect the former, but not be surprised if it were the latter.
Blue Willy
Player Valuation: £8m
Ok so you disagree.
But you are wrong.
We are weaker, it’s a fact. Dress it up as much as you like
We’ve got 1 fit striker, but ok
Still disagree. Imo, we will be stronger in the 2nd half of the season to the 1st. But I respect your opinion mate. No probs at all.
Mangala is a loss, but Garner/Tim are decent. If Gana stays fit especially.
Dom/Broja are not reliable sources of goals, especially in the predicament were in. Beto somehow will add a few more goals than Dom would imo and Chemitti will be back soon. Perhaps Broja sooner than we thought. With other players back, Moyes looks like he would like an almost false 9 with an Ndiaye or one of the more attack minded players.
The vast majority of our fans havent been happy with Doucs overall this season. Perhaps Alcaraz will fit into that role, slightly advanced of a Gana-Garner mid. Thats looks good to me. Time will tell, but I reckon fans will take to Alcaraz with his workrate, ability and hunger. Take a half decent set-piece too. Looks like a good strengthening in a good key position to me.
But perhaps the biggest strengthening, and the most important member of the “team” is having Moyes in the second half of the season and not Dyche. It was Dycheball that was taking us down, not the players.
We will be fine under Moyes, and we will be in a MUCH better place in the next window - financially and physically, in our amazing new stadium.
Keep the faith mate.
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GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £70m
The main issue is we now have nobody in case Beto gets injured. I don't think any club in the land can say they have absolutely no backup to their striker. In our case, from the four strikers at the club - if all were fit - Beto would be fourth choice and he's the only one available.
We have one available backup in case Ndiaye gets injured, which is Harrison. The drop off in quality would be like downgrading from Champions League to League Two.
We have no decent backup to Pickford, and only one natural left back in the squad. If a few of these players get injured at the same time, it could (not would, but could) be disastrous.
I do think we'll have more than enough to stay up, but it's an approach I've never seen from any club before - willingly ignoring all warning signs in the squad and hoping we'll be able to plod our way to safety by picking up no further injuries and hoping those in the bottom three continue to be as poor as they've been.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
At Roma, the first season and the current ones incomings, those are the two out of four seasons they've been more active in the market (100m first and 70m last season net spend), the two in between saw a net 70m and 60m profit in player trading. Overall they economy invested in 40m total over the four seasons - given Ronas squad was pretty decent initially and they were saying on the EL spots most season it can't be directly compared to us ofc
But it's interesting that if we follow a similar trajectory, then a big year one investment is likely (they funded the Roma spend out there own pockets pretty much on year one) but like with Roma if they spend big then it looks like it's a one off thing of funding the players the manager wants in and expecting results from this. No multi 100m investment year on year.
But it's interesting that if we follow a similar trajectory, then a big year one investment is likely (they funded the Roma spend out there own pockets pretty much on year one) but like with Roma if they spend big then it looks like it's a one off thing of funding the players the manager wants in and expecting results from this. No multi 100m investment year on year.
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Blue Willy
Player Valuation: £8m
The problem is, you just cant buy a good striker for a few weeks in the Jan window, that is cheap and is better than Chermitti, Dom and Broja - to cover them short term and get shut in a month or so when the others are fit. Its a gamble, as a couple wont be training for 2 or 3 prem games.
But I reckon having an Ndiaye or Lindstrom up top for 2 or 3 games and saving money, would be better for us in the long run. Money is still limited, weve used enough sticking plasters on mediocrity of late, and more journeymen is not the answer.
If we were deep into relegation positions I would agree with you buddy, but, although a gamble, when faced with few choices, I think were probably better off saving our money for a top striker in the summer, rather than a desperate stop-gap now.
So how many forwards did we sign before the deadline last night? I went to bed at 10:30...
Ferguson1878
Player Valuation: £35m
The braithwaite war chest
little elfin
Player Valuation: £10m
When Beto injured in the training ground tomorrow...
We can go back to relegation thread.
We can go back to relegation thread.
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